The story of one citizen's fight to preserve a US stake in the future of clean
energy and the elements essential to high tech industries and national defense.
American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of
globalization, and with the blessing of the U.S. government, once proprietary
technologies and materials are now exploited around the world. Nowhere is this
more dangerous than in China's monopoly of rare earth elements-materials that
are essential for our gadgets and weapons systems.
Jim Kennedy is a retired securities trader who bought a bankrupt mining
operation. The mine was rich in rare earth elements, but he soon discovered that
China owned